monastic library in a sentence
Examples
- It was closely guarded for many centuries in the monastic library of St Irenaeus at Lyon.
- These are found in relative abundance in all monastic libraries, and the White Monastery is no exception.
- This building contains the monastic library.
- Most of them were stored at the Bastille, in the Saint-Germain-des-Pr�s, and the monastic Library of Corbie Abbey.
- On the other hand, the monastic library and some other treasures were transferred to Moscow or St Petersburg.
- While "'monastic library "'scriptoriums flourished throughout the East and West, the rules governing them were generally the same.
- The monastic libraries were centres of culture; as late as the seventeenth century there were 101 monasteries in Lithuania.
- In 2004 the surviving medieval books of the monastic library were entrusted for safekeeping to the University of Exeter.
- A school was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection.
- The monks also attempted to move their archives and monastic libraries to the south, but several were burned by the Vikings.